Officials are probing how a 51-year-old highway bridge came to collapse in the Italian port city of Genoa yesterday, killing at least 26 people and injuring 16 others as it sent dozens of vehicles tumbling into a heap of concrete and twisted steel.

US: Aust-US deal a slap to Trump voters

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's secret deal with the Obama administration to re-settle refugees in the US is a slap in the face to the tens of millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump, according to one of America's best known immigration reform groups.

Mr Turnbull's weekend announcement took executives at the Washington DC-based Federation for American Immigration Reform by surprise.